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Where were these victories against the Grizzlies in last year’s playoffs? 3 games, 3 wins, 2 without Manu. The same Manu who didn’t play in Game 1, the same Game 1 that set the tone for the entire series. (I swear, I’m over it.) Some actual thoughts on tonight’s game: –Not that I enjoy seeing a 13-point lead dissipate in the matter of minutes, but I do like the Spurs…

A few thoughts from tonight’s victory over the New Orleans Hornets: –This has been a really interesting Tim Duncan season. He started out slowly, looking old and creaky. Over the last few weeks, though, he seems to have rounded into form and has been playing very well (though still obviously not the transcendent player he once was). Every time he has a game like last night or tonight, it will…

At the tail end of our bitter first-round loss to Memphis last season, Jeff Van Gundy made a statement that I found so interesting and potentially illuminating, I wrote it down. This is what he said: “The regular season in the NBA is about your basketball character…. The playoffs more reveal your basketball talent…. The Spurs don’t have anything to be ashamed of. They gave an unbelievable regular season. They…

Enemy Intel is a new feature here on SpursDynasty.com. After each Spurs game, and occasionally beforehand, we’ll sum up what intelligent things bloggers for the opponents are saying about our San Antonio Spurs. The Rockets blogosphere, much like the team, appears to be in decline. As far as I can tell, most Rockets blogs are poorly designed and infrequently updated. (As evidence, check out HoustonRocketNews.com and RocketsNation.com.) That being said……

Tony Parker played tremendously well tonight against the Rockets; he played rather poorly last night against the Bucks. Looking at the box scores of the respective games, there aren’t many numbers to indicate that. Really, the only difference between last night and tonight is the 8 TOs to only 2 tonight. And that’s big, obviously. But the difference really lies in the eyeballs, and what you see (and perhaps esoterically…

In yesterday’s post, I talked about how the average scoring margin across the NBA in the early going is right around 12 ppg. One probable reason for this is that if a coach feels his team doesn’t have it, he is probably more prone to throw in the towel and rest his top players, as there is most surely another game right around the corner. A smart move. On the…

The games are just coming too quickly to keep up with them in a timely manner, let alone get recaps posted for each one. So let’s bite off a huge chunk at once and just throw some scattered thoughts and observations out into the world about our beloved Spurs and the NBA. –In the early going of this season, it seems that teams with strong continuity will at times have…

Was what we saw in tonight’s loss to the TImberwolves a sign of things to come for the Spurs now that Manu Ginobili will miss several weeks with a broken left hand? Or might the Spurs bounce back and win games without him? The stats for this season, so far, aren’t encouraging. Ryan Christopher DeVault writes for Yahoo (“Manu Ginobili Out Indefinitely with Broken Hand: A Fan’s Take“): Over the…

I must admit: I didn’t pay much attention to the NBA for a long time. I tend to zone out in the summer regardless. When the lockout news started heating up and the potential existed for an entire season to be lost, I completely shut it out and tuned out the noise. It’s not that I didn’t care. But secretly, part of me was excited to maybe miss the season….

According to Tim Griffin of the Express-News (“Massive Kaman could provide Spurs with inside depth“): Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo.com tweets that the Spurs and Kaman’s hometown team of Detroit are both considering making a bid for him. Kaman is a skilled offensive player with better than average athleticism inside. After playing at Central Michigan, he was the No. 6 pick in the 2003 draft for the Clippers. He has played…